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Economic news worsens but markets continue to rise, marking the final stage of the market cycle. Financial pundits lure sheeple into market, then claim no one saw it coming after crash.

The economic news is getting really bad but markets are still rising. The brief final stage of the market cycle.pic.twitter.com/55ZY4MGgPy https://t.co/rX8hxr3YI3 — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) July 25, 2023 The overwhelming temptation of every financial pundit is to lure sheeple into a market powered by five stocks:https://t.co/vCedAfNQWd And then after the crash tell everyone no one saw …

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S&P 7 up 58%, S&P 493 down 4%. AI hype and technology stocks dominate market… who gets out this time?

Companies are increasingly mentioning "AI" on their earnings calls. Nvidia, $NVDA, mentioned it 83 times on their most recent call. This earnings season should be extremely interesting, to say the least. Follow us @KobeissiLetter for real time analysis as we track this. pic.twitter.com/fjuk5a9wUm — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) July 18, 2023 Bulls, who gets out …

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AI-related stocks drove virtually all of the S&P 500 returns in 2023 – is AI hype just a bubble?

by Ok_Significance_4008 I remember this set up back in 1999 during the last stages of the dot.com bubble. The sequence of money flow went from hardware companies, to retail killers (remember Pets.com), to closed pay to play networks (remember AOL.com), niche specific products, and finally the everything dot.com panacea for all your online sales pitches. …

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Institutions to dump tech stocks in second half after best first half in 40 years. Hedge funds shift to bearish dollar bet, flipping 20,091 contracts to short

Retail gamblers are trapped. After the best first half for Tech stocks in 40 years, institutions are dumping Tech stocks in the second half.https://t.co/It9OGJH69b Retail gamblers are trapped. pic.twitter.com/9ApQOQSKeP — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) July 10, 2023 Microsoft has been the most consistently dominant company of the past two decades. pic.twitter.com/7FiBWGSeS5 — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) July 10, 2023 …

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Stock market surge deviates from reality; fund managers buy overvalued stocks to catch up. Economic indicators diverge, earnings revised upwards, similar to 2008 financial crisis.

Recent stock market surge deviates from reality, with fund managers buying overvalued stocks to catch up, pushing the market higher. https://twitter.com/MFHoz/status/1674879653008359424 Look at NAIIM, they are fully invested now. — The Macro Pulse (@TheMacroPulse) June 30, 2023 Nine months down, and nine months up. And what a load of bull shit we've had to suffer …

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Short Bets on US Stocks Hit $1 Trillion

Short sellers are ramping up bets against US stocks even as paper losses on the positions surpass $100 billion. Total US short interest, or the amount traders have spent betting against US equities, exceeded $1 trillion this month as the S&P 500 Index extended its advance, S3 Partners LLC data show. The tally reached the …

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Tech stocks and AI vs the Fed.

Technology stocks are on a tear. Investors can’t agree on whether their recent run looks like the prelude to an eventual bust—like that of the dot-com era—or the start of a more durable rally. Hype around artificial intelligence has helped drive shares of technology companies to records this year. The rally has only intensified heading …

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The US Stocks market is worth 2x money supply M2 and moving higher.

US Stocks market is worth 2x money supply M2 and moving higher as M2 is falling. This metric is not far from peaks of 2008 and 2021 #Recession #FederalReserve pic.twitter.com/6abrnaByDl — FinFab (@FinFabApp) June 8, 2023 The Nasdaq has now traded green for 8 consecutive weeks, the longest streak since November 2019. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) …

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Forward P/E of 50 largest stocks has increased 30% since October. Investors are buying calls like no tomorrow!

Since S&P 500’ s October low, forward P/E of 50 largest stocks (blue) is up by 30% … there hasn’t been any gain in forward EPS (orange) over same timeframe[Past performance is no guarantee of future results] pic.twitter.com/x46OMr9Ufe — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) June 16, 2023 Source: Goldman Sachs — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) June …

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JPMorgan Says Stocks to Suffer $150 Billion Rebalancing Sale

JPMorgan Chase & Co. projects real-money portfolios, including those of sovereign wealth and pension funds, will tilt back in favor of bonds to meet allocation targets, in the largest rebalancing flows to the asset class since the fourth quarter of 2021. Japan’s $1.5 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund or GPIF, the world’s largest pension fund, …

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Investors have increased their short positions against tech stocks. Jobless techies being cast into #BidensEconomy to fend for themselves.

Big tech stocks have some of the highest short interest in the market. Last month, investors added $3.57 billion to their short positions against $TSLA, $2.5 billion against $NVDA and $7.26 billion against $META — Cheddar Flow (@CheddarFlow) June 4, 2023 https://twitter.com/VSoien/status/1665479234213539842 https://twitter.com/VSoien/status/1665481649436459011 Job cut announcements in technology picked up in May: pic.twitter.com/kFipcmACz1 — unusual_whales …

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‘If you randomly pick a stock, you only have a 20% chance of turning a profit. The story is the same with large-cap stocks.’

The fundamental problem with picking stocks is it's not a 50/50 chance as most investors think. 80% of all stocks generated 0% return and the remaining 20% of stocks accounted for all the gains. If you randomly pick a stock, you only have a 20% chance of turning a profit. pic.twitter.com/Mz7pFbeMQp — Market Sentiment (@mkt_sentiment) …

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Adam Hamilton: Gold Stocks Soaring Again

Guest Post by Adam Hamilton at Zeal LLC: The gold miners’ stocks are soaring again, just blasting to new upleg highs this week!  They are following their metal higher and amplifying its gains like usual.  Yet despite their dramatic surges in recent weeks, both gold and gold stocks have lots of room to keep running.  …

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